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Grant to help rehabilitate injured koalas

Magnetic Island's koala carer has been given more than $14,000 to build better enclosures and a koala hospital.

The island's vet Alison Bee is looking after two orphaned koalas from north Queensland.

She says they will build spacious enclosures where the animals can be rehabilitated and taught to jump and climb.

"At the moment we've just been using what's been available and it's okay but it's not ideal," she said.

"We've got two orphaned babies at the moment which are going to need a koala kindy and so this is going to go a long long way towards doing that sort of set-up for them.

"We'll be building koala kindies but also we get adult koalas in so, we need to just have some purpose-built cages that range from intensive care beds to the slightly bigger open cages and then going to up kindy areas, just gives them more space, it puts more trees in there so they can learn to jump and climb."